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Nick Strayer
I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times, and built packages for R that let you do magic.
Currently searching for a data science position that allows me build tools using visualization and machine learning to help people explore and understand their data.
Education
PhD. Candidate, biostatistics
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
2020 - 2015
- Dissertation on Bayesian network models and interactive biomedical visualization platforms
- University Graduate Fellow
- Elected member Graduate Student Council
B.S., mathematics, statistics
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
2015 - 2011
- Minored in computer science
- Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana
Positions Held
Graduate Research Assistant
TBILab (Yaomin Xu’s Lab)
Vanderbilt University
2020 - 2015
- Primarily working with large EHR and Biobank datasets.
- Developing network-based methods to investigate and visualize clinically relevant patterns in data.
Data Science Researcher
Data Science Lab
Johns Hopkins University
2018 - 2017
- Building R Shiny applications in the contexts of wearables and statistics education.
- Work primarily done in R Shiny and Javascript (node and d3js).
Data Journalist - Graphics Department
New York Times
New York, New York
2016
- Reporter with the graphics desk covering topics in science, politics, and sport.
- Work primarily done in R, Javascript, and Adobe Illustrator.
- Had most read and discussed article for entire paper for month of August, 2016.
Data Science Intern
Dealer.com
Burlington, VT
2015
- Worked with the product analytics team to help parse and visualize large stores of data to drive business decisions.
Data Artist In Residence
Conduce
Carpinteria, CA
2015 - 2014
- Envisioned, prototyped and implemented visualization framework in the course of one month.
- Constructed training protocol for bringing third parties up to speed with new protocol.